For 12 years the Gladstone Hotel has been bringing Toronto audiences the cutting edge of art and design.

Come Up To My Room is unique amongst exhibitions because we invite artists and designers to transform our 125 year old Hotel with brand new site-specific installations, rather than just curating existing work. The curators share the risk with the artists and trust them to push their practice beyond even their own expectations. This means that until the show opens, even we are not quite sure what will happen!

During the 10 days of the exhibition we invited Torontonians to come and explore with us; to meet the artists and designers, to engage in our interactive events, to rock out at our parties and most of all experience the vanguard of up and coming Canadian design.

Now that the craziness of CUTMR2015 is over, take a virtual tour of each art installation through these gorgeous photos of every installation.

Carla Poirier is a graphic designer, creative director, photographer and curator living and working in Toronto. She is the co-founder and curator of Toronto’s typography showcase Creative Type.

In a Space is an exploration of physical composition through the lens of Graphic Design. This exhibition will explore the fundamentals of design, inviting the viewer inside an abstract realm of ephemera and merge the thin line between art and design.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Miles Ingrassia and Iris Karuna are Toronto-based artists who work in a variety of media, including printmaking, collage, text-based works, digital media, and installation. Their current works explore uncertainty and value in interpersonal relationships, existentialism as a tenet to humanism and the post post-modern perspective.

Oh Thank Heaven… explores urban detachment and the compulsion to discover or designate unconventional spaces as sacred. Objects typically associated with variety stores instead mimic recognizably sacred spaces, such as church altars and stained glass windows. This installation emphasizes the incongruity between physically occupied spaces and their metaphysical effects.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Joseph Bauman is a farm boy furniture maker raised in Port Dover, Ontario. Dayna Gedney is a Toronto born designer/maker. JB + DG, an acronym scrawled on their raw material and tools to mark their ownership, has grown to symbolize their playful collaboration and efforts as a design team.

At the heart of each project we aim to use luxurious materials to provide straightforward utility and simple beauty in equal measure.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General of $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Denise St. Marie and Timothy Walker’s practice, found under the moniker Timeanddesire, explores new genre artwork throughout the public realm as well as galleries. Work often aims to highlight the absurd, the psychological, the philosophical and the poetic, while attempting to shift the observer’s viewpoint, if only for a moment.

Innerventions involves a series of subtle interventions found throughout the Gladstone. Signs have been installed in various locations, as well as some text art for the keen observer. Explore the hotel and be sure to pay attention to the fine print.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Ricky Sosa, a self-taught designer born and raised in Mexico, has been practicing a beaded artist for some years. He is passionate about heritage and artistic patterns. His origins, culture, and love of traditions and feeling that they are basically our record of the knowledge from the past, all subconsciously influence his work.

Revolucionario, which translates to revolutionary in Spanish, is a person that fearlessly advocates radical change. Revolutionary ideas challenge the status quo and might be violent or willing to upset the natural order to achieve their goals.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Michael Poulton is a multi-disciplinary artist, working in the mediums of site-specific installations, found-art assemblages, painting and collage. He is the curator of the Museum of Temporary Art, established in 1987 and located in Victoria Road, Ontario. He is a board member of Artspace, the artist-run-centre, in Peterborough.

The Museum of Temporary Art is a conceptual installation of an imaginary museum, in which found a`rt assemblages and objects are presented together, blurring the line between art and non-art. The purpose of the museum is to both question the nature of art and critique the institutions that preserve and promote it.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Noah Scheinman is an artist and writer with an emerging interest in the relationship between architecture, politics and urban form. Mary Soroka is an art director and illustrator working in print, packaging, photography, web/app design, and time-based media.

Borrowing from the codes of both advertising and architecture, our collaborative project is an investigation into the material reality of images. Ignoring any distinction between the virtual and the real, we instead explore how these forms of meaning work together to construct our physical and psychic spaces.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Parker Kay is a multi-disciplinary artist who has exhibited in Canada and the United States. Kay strives to articulate concepts in the medium best suited to do so, for the most part using video, sculpture, images, and web-based media. Much of Kay’s work responds to an Internet-aware culture, while also exploring notions of embodiment, archival practices, and experience design.

Michael Abel is an artist born in Didsbury, Alberta and is now based out of Toronto, Ontario. Abel’s most recent pursuits are completing his masters in architecture at the University of Toronto and editing a publication under the idea of art and architecture production in the age of network culture, which has created a discourse that he explores in his personal artist practice.

Originally, the architecture of the white cube was designed in a way that would allow the gallery to melt away in order to focus the viewer’s attention towards the artwork in the space. Rather than a void space, the gallery has turned into a space that says “whatever is inside these walls is art,” which gives these architectural features great power. Parker Kay and Michael Abel examine the architectural features of a gallery space and use these materials as the basis for sculptural installation. The walls, the floor, the wood and the drywall of the gallery become the artwork, negating any need for the inclusion of traditional art objects.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General of $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Jesse Hasko is a musician in the Brooklyn, NY based band North America and a multidisciplinary artist that engages senses through sculpture, craft, music, flowers and food. Over years of exhibiting throughout New Mexico and New York, Hasko has shown how themes of death and darkness can simultaneously be appreciated with beauty and joy.

This piece focuses on the relationship between humans and nature, the “imbalance” and subsequent “balance.” The ability of an organism to face extinction and the beauty and heartache that lie within it.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm